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SYNOPSIS
pdimport [-n] [-s sourcefile] database
DESCRIPTION
This is a simple utility for importing text files into a PAPI BasicAuth database.
ARGUMENTS
pdimport takes the following arguments:
- -n
- Re-generate the database from scratch.
- -s sourcefile
- Use the specified file as source. If not specified, standard input will be used.
SOURCE FILE FORMAT
Source files must contain a record per line. Lines starting with '#' are considered comments. Each record must have the format:
CLASS::ID::PARAMS
Where:
- CLASS
- The class of resource: user, group, site
- ID
- The identifier of the resource inside the database
- PARAMS
- The parameters specific to the resource.
The format and parameters for the three recognized classes are:
- For users
user::ID::PASSWORD::ALT::GROUPLIST::SITELIST- PASSWORD
-
Password for this user (it must be
crypt()encoded)
- ALT
- Alternate name for this user
- GROUPLIST
- Comma-separated list of group IDs this user belongs to
- SITELIST
- Comma-separated list of site IDs this user has access to
- For groups:
group::ID::ALT::SITELIST- ALT
- Alternate name for the users in this group
- SITELIST
- Comma-separated list of site IDs this group has access to
- For sites:
site::ID::DESC::POA::AUTHURI::TTL::SERVICE::LOCATION::ACCESSURI::ASSERTION- DESC
- Textual description of the site
- POA
- PoA to be accessed
- AUTHURI
- URI for requesting tokens to the Point of Access (relative to the value of LOCATION)
- TTL
- Time to live for the tokens requested to the PoA for this site
- SERVICE
- Service identifier at the PoA for this site
- LOCATION
- Location at the PoA for this site
- ACCESSURI
-
URI for initially accessing content protected by the PoA at this site (relative to the value of B<LOCATION>)
- ASSERTION
- Format of the assertion on user attributes to be sent to the PoA for this site.